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Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2026

2026 is the 6th year of the SSW and Counterflows collaboration, offering vital residency opportunities to Scotland based artists who are also caregivers. We are delighted to offer 4 Fully Funded Residencies in 2026, thanks to generous support of the William Grant Foundation and Creative Scotland. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency offers: This residency recognises that the care of others is central to the collective survival of our world yet is deeply undervalued within our society. This is often […]

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Artists / News / Residencies / Residency / Residency 5:57 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Open Call: SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency 2026
Alicia handbuilding in the Ceramics Studio, image credit: SSW

Caregivers Residency Blog: Alicia Matthews

Alicia Matthews, one of the five 2025 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency artists, reflects on her time here in March and April with a recorded spoken excerpt of writing and images of work made on residency below. The SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency was set up in 2020 to expand funded residency opportunities to artists who are also caregivers. The 2026 SSW x Counterflows Caregivers Residency Open Call is live from 30 April and the deadline for applications is Friday […]

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Artists / News / Residencies / Residency / Residency 5:17 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Caregivers Residency Blog: Alicia Matthews
Donnah and Ceramics Technican Amy at a pit firing, image credit: SSW

Ceramics Subscribers blog: Donnah Murray / Roots and Cadence

Each month we are sharing more about our Ceramic Subscribers who join us year round in the Ceramics Studio at SSW.  Ceramics Subscription enables users to have regular, independent access to SSW’s Ceramics Studio along with some technical guidance. It is aimed at supporting a broad range of people both artists and makers with existing skills and experience working in ceramics as well as those who are beginners, and are keen to develop their ceramics skills and knowledge with regular […]

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Artists / Ceramics / News 5:07 pm , April 30, 2026 Comments Off on Ceramics Subscribers blog: Donnah Murray / Roots and Cadence
An artist in blue overalls and yellow gloves and face protection is plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop.Plasma cutting in the SSW metal workshop, image credit: SSW

Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award

SSW is part of Scotland’s Workshops, a network of 10 visual arts production facilities across the country and together we’re excited to share the Scotland’s Workshops Award. This award provides a Scotland based, emerging artist* with time, support and financial means to experiment and gain new skills through spending time at 2 of the 10 visual art production facilities across Scotland that make up Scotland’s Workshops.  The selected artist will receive a bursary of: £2500 artists bursary£1500 production bursary to cover tuition, […]

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Artists / News / Opportunities 7:17 pm , June 12, 2025 Comments Off on Open Call: Scotland’s Workshops Award
Photo by Felicity Crawshaw

Residencies in Clay Artist Blog: Josie ko

For 4 weeks across November and December Josie KO took part in Residencies in Clay, which supported artists exploring the transformational potential of clay within society and contemporary arts practice. The residency culminated in Building the Clay Commons with Eva Masterman, which brought together local community members, makers and artists from the North East and beyond. Josie reflects on her developing relationship with clay and her thought processes while on residency at SSW. All words by Josie ko. I’ve never […]

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Artists / Ceramics / News / Residencies / Residency 1:40 pm , March 26, 2024 Comments Off on Residencies in Clay Artist Blog: Josie ko

Caregivers residency blog: Hope is the thing with feathers by Norma D Hunter

In March 2023 Norma D Hunter completed her SSW X Counterflows Residency supported by Creative Scotland’s Radical Care project. The residency offered artists time, space, funding and support to develop artists practices alongside their caregiving responsibilities. Norma has written a beautiful, honest blog about her experience as a caregiver and how the residency helped her regain her identity as an artist. Please note this blog contents information about living with and supporting someone living with cancer. “When it comes back…and it will come […]

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Artists / News / Residency 9:56 am , March 28, 2023 Comments Off on Caregivers residency blog: Hope is the thing with feathers by Norma D Hunter

Artist-Led Exchange Event – Roos Dijkhuizen

Roos Dijkhuizen has been on residency at SSW the past month experimenting and creating a series of objects inspired by local symbology that can also be used to create an ensemble of sounds. Roos would like to invite you to the workshop on Thursday 6th of July to share and explore how these objects can be played in a collective group, considering the works as tools to respond to your environment and finding your own rhythms in the landscape. The […]

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Artists / Community / Events / News 12:57 pm , June 30, 2017 0

Introducing the participants of our Emerging Artist Residency

Week in Pictures… The March Emerging Artists Katie Anderson, Jen Bradley, Thomas Woodcock, Fiona McCubbin, Rachel Levine and Emily Iremonger, have been working in every workshop and almost every medium during their three week stay. Here is Katie Anderson showing us her copper cast horn that she is hoping to install during a hill walk over the next couple of weeks. Last week we held studio talks, each artist had 5 – 10 mins to show an overview of their […]

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Artists / News / SSW Workshops / Week in Pictures 4:29 pm , March 27, 2014 0

Looking back at the Darkness and Isolation Residencies

Presentations and Workshops Artists Helle Bjerregaard, Jane Brucker, Catharina Golebowskie, Petra Vergunst, Jack Vickridge and Harriette Yarrington joined us for the Darkness and Isolation Residency, which ran from January to February this year.                         While Mars might seem literally light years away from us, Aberdeenshire is actually home to the only known source of Macaulayite in the world. Macaulayte is rich in iron, with a distinctive red colour, and is being […]

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Artists / News 6:13 pm , March 26, 2014 0

In the shadow of the breast

North East landmark in focus: international artists’ new work inspired by Bennachie on view in Aberdeen  Preview 6.30pm Friday 4 April 2014 Seventeen, 17 Belmont Street, Aberdeen Bennachie – hill of the breast – is an iconic landmark that has cast its shadow over the North East since it was formed 400 million years ago. This mass of rock was gradually worn away by glaciations, wind, rain and frost, revealing the familiar profile that stands dominating the horizon today. In the […]

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Artists / Events / News 2:49 pm , March 5, 2014 0